What is the build tool for Ruby codes? - ruby-on-rails

Actually when we write codes in Java, we use Maven for building java code similarly Adv Java uses Gradle and .Net code uses Ms Build. But when we write Ruby codes, how can we built that code.
Is it possible to deploy the code directly to ROR ??

Ruby is a interpreted language.
An interpreted language is a type of programming language for which
most of its implementations execute instructions directly and freely,
without previously compiling a program into machine-language
instructions. The interpreter executes the program directly,
translating each statement into a sequence of one or more subroutines,
and then into another language (often machine code).
While there are quite a few IDE's that make it faster or easier to write ruby code there is no compiler step.
Is it possible to deploy the code directly to ROR ??
The question is totally nonsensical since both Ruby on Rails and your application code are interpreted on the go.
You can run ruby code with the Ruby command:
ruby somefile.rb
Or an interactive prompt with irb.
You run RoR applications with rails server and an interactive console with rails console.
While Capistrano is a build tool it does not actually compile code. Rather it just automates the steps of deploying an application, and is an optional dependency usually used when you are deploying via SSH or FTP. Its better compared to other tools in dynamic languages such as Grunt (javascript) or Apache Ant. Capistrano is seldom used when deploying to SAAS platforms such as Heruko.

You need to built code in Java and .Net as these are compile type languages whereas Ruby is an interpreted language ie it will check the syntax errors or any other message whenever the code/file is being run explicitly.
While you can run the ruby file using
ruby filname.rb
Is it possible to deploy the code directly to ROR ??
To run your code locally using
rails s
And deploy the code using capistrano or other tools to some other server.
Hope it clarifies your question.

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Use Lua sandbox with MediaWiki under Windows

I am running a MediaWiki (1.34.1) on a Windows server. The wiki contains some Lua modules which are executed by the Scribunto extension running Lua 5.1.4.
Up to now I am using the luastandalone but I would like to use the luasandbox engine (should be faster).
With the lastest PHP luasandbox release 4.0.2 PECL provides a Windows DLL (https://pecl.php.net/package/LuaSandbox/4.0.2/windows).
With this DLL is it possible to run luasandbox under Windows?
How can I install/configure the PHP/MediaWiki/Scribunto environment to use this DLL?
Yes, it is possible to use LuaSandbox under Windows with IIS, and is in fact an especially convenient way to do so, You simply install the necessary Lua binary as a PHP extension into your existing PHP interpreter (which you know is working, because MediaWiki is implemented in PHP).
I discuss this at some length in this conversation on the MediaWiki page Extension Talk:Scribunto but I'll provide the essentials here as well:
I did finally get Lua working under IIS on Windows 10, with PHP 8.0. The trick was, I abandoned the luaStandalone binary entirely, and instead downloaded the (just released less than 2 months ago) PHP luaSandbox extension from PECL:
https://pecl.php.net/package/LuaSandbox
Click on "DLL", then choose the build that matches your PHP install (for me it was PHP 8.0, x64, non-thread safe — the details are at the very top of the long, long output of php.exe -i from a command line), and download the provided zip file. After extraction, only two files are important:
php_luasandbox.dll, a PHP extension module that goes wherever the rest of your extensions are. (For me, C:\Program Files\PHP\v8.0\ext\.)
lua5.1.dll, an embeddable Lua interpreter that gets installed in the directory where the php.exe binary lives. (For me that was C:\Program Files\PHP\v8.0\, the parent directory of the extension location).
After that, just edit your php.ini to add:
extension=php_luasandbox.dll
and edit LocalSettings.php to include:
$wgScribuntoDefaultEngine = 'luasandbox';
(making sure to remove or comment out any lines about luaStandalone).
Relaunch IIS, and that should be that. If you have MediaWiki working at all, you've already got PHP running, so using Lua that way, as a PHP extension, just makes eminent amounts of sense.
As I note in the MediaWiki discussion, there's some degree of controversy over this because the Lua developers themselves are sort of down on the notion of a "sandboxed Lua". They do not believe it to be a technically viable method of restricting Lua's access to and consumption of system resources. But on Windows, most of the restrictions they recommend imposing on the standalone binary are not available from the OS anyway, making the situation even more confusing/unclear.

Grails/aNimble on Windows : Getting cannot find the specified path

I am trying to setup aNimble on Windows following this article.
I have setup the Java and MySQL (xampp) on Windows and both are working properly.
Now, as the final step I need to execute
grails prod execute-database-scripts-all
but I am getting cannot find the specified path. Even when I type grails only I get the same error. I have zero experience in Grails, but it seems that I need to install Grails first on the PC. Until I do this, I want to know is there anything else that I need to do this to successfully execute this command.
What are the three portions of this command grails, prod and execute-database-scripts-all
This error means that Windows is unable to find grails executable anywhere it looks (in any paths specified in PATH system property) when you typing grails command. You may have to follow this guide in order to install grails application framework properly in your system (also, make sure you are installing a correct version of grails compatible with your distribution of aNimble) and then retry.
Grails is a web application framework and which provides a set of tools to develop, build and run web applications like aNimble, prod is a command line option for grails telling it to run in a production mode and execute-database-scripts-all is aNimble-specific command to initialize it's database.

How to get color in Windows gitbash using bundle exec rake test

I am following Rails Tutorial. I am on section 3.7.1 and I am trying to get color in my gitbash command prompt when running bundle exec rake test. I have tried installing ansi, the win32console gem and the gem called turn and nothing seems to work.
Is it even possible to get red and green colors when running bundle exec rake test?
You definitely can get colored output to show up. But not with using the standard Windows cmd.exe or powershell. Gems won't help. You need to need add the ability to correctly interpret ANSI escape codes to your system -- something that cmd and powershell aren't able to do. (ANSI.sys was how ANSI escape codes were handled under DOS. cmd and powershell don't use it.)
You need to (1) install ANSICON and/or (2) install and use a different console/console emulator or shell that handles colors (ANSI escape codes).
(1) ANSICON is a program for Windows that interprets ANSI escape codes so that color is displayed. It kind of runs 'on top of' cmd or powershell. You can set it up so that it's always used whenever you use cmd or powershell, or use it only at specific times. Most people install this and are really happy with it.
Jason Karns wrote a blog post about installing and using ANSICON for git bash (on Windows) that folks have found helpful.
(2) Here are the popular options for alternatives to cmd/powershell. These are console emulators and tools and shell alternatives:
ConEmu - ("ConEmu-Maximus5") This is a console emulator, not a shell. You can use it with any shell (cmd, powershell, cygwin, bash, etc). But in day-to-day use, once you set it up, you use it just like you'd use cmd.exe or powershell, etc. (I use this so know more about it than the other choices. I have configurations for it to start up with different git/ruby version/rails version configurations as needed. I don't use ANSICON because I use ConEmu whenever I need to open up a console.)
Console 2 - Like ConEmu, this is a console emulator that adds functionality above and beyond cmd.exe (including displaying ANSI colors). You can use it with existing shells (e.g. powershell, etc.) Here's a SO answer that talks about using Console 2.
Console Z - a fork of Console 2 that is current and actively maintained. I haven't ever used it, but here is some info on how you'd configure Console Z to work with git bash.
You can also (or instead of) use a Unix-like shell (or suites):
Cygwin is the best known suite of Unix-like commands that runs in Windows. Comes with shells (e.g. MinTTY) that can be used and will work with ANSI codes
Babun A windows shell that sits on top of a cygwin install. Configurable; you can create configurations (e.g. for git bash or rvm or whatever) and share them as plug-ins. (Uses the mitty console.)
MinGW - A "Minimalist GNU for Windows" that has a GNU toolset for windows, focused on those tools needed for development. (IOW, it's a smaller and slightly different set than Cygwin provides.) DevKit, used to complie ruby gems into native windows code, uses MinGW.
MinSYS - "[A] contraction of "Minimal SYStem", is a Bourne Shell command line interpreter system. Offered as an alternative to Microsoft's cmd.exe, this provides a general purpose command line environment, which is particularly suited to use with MinGW, for porting of many Open Source applications to the MS-Windows platform; a light-weight fork of Cygwin-1.3, it includes a small selection of Unix tools, chosen to facilitate that objective." (From the MinGW site:)
Some searching might turn up additional options. These are the options most talked about and used (based on talking with others IRL, StackOverflow, and doing searching now and previously.)
Install and set one of those options (it won't take long), and then you'll be all set to see the helpful colors used by RSpec or git or whatever.

Where to find list of binaries available in Heroku build environment?

Title says it all.
If I understand correctly, the Heroku VM environment provides some built-in binaries and then additional ones can be provided in a custom build pak.
Trial (by building a little test app) and error (by having the build fail) is the only way forward so far. Surely there's a better way.
I have read the Heroku docs and looked in obvious places in the Ruby build pak source. No list.
My immediate aim is to determine if a Rails app that requires GD2 graphics (the gd2-ruby gem) will build without a custom build pak. But the general question of binaries availability comes up again and again.
Run heroku run bash, and get a shell in a plain dyno. Then list all rpms installed by invoking dpkg --get-selections, as for example here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages or here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/show-the-list-of-installed-packages-on-ubuntu-or-debian/

How do I use xsltproc command-line tools on Heroku

In my Ruby on Rails application, I am using xsltproc command-line tools. These work on my development machine, but are not working on Heroku, the deployment platform I am using. I asked Heroku support a question about it, and here is what they said:
Hi– can you try compiling xsltproc as a standalone static binary and deploy that as part of your application?
If I knew what that meant, I probably wouldn't be here. I am guessing it means make a file with all the xsltproc code and call that for the xsltproc commands. I have no idea how to do that. Can anyone help?
If anyone wants to use xsltproc command-line tools on Heroku, don't do it. I was able to use the Nokogiri gem, along with the built in XPath functions to do everything I need.

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